Bottle carrier



June 5 1945. RQBINSQN J L 2377520 BOTTLE CARRIER Fil'ed March 9; 1944 2Sheets-Sheet 1 W. .M 7 2 m 3 0 c 1 R L mm o 0 Z .2 7 ,2

J 5, J. ROVBINSCDN, JR ET AL 2,377,520

IBVOTTLECARRIER Filed March 9, 1944 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Joseph Robinson Jr?Mark L. Se iber'i' 37 Patented June 5, 1945 BOTTLE CARRIER JosephRobinson, Jr., Ohio, assignors to and Mark L. S eibert, Dover, MarshWall Products, In-

corporated, Dover, Ohio, a corporation of Ohio Application March 9,1944, Serial No. 525,674

2 Claims.

The invention relates to holders for beverage bottles and moreparticularly to a carrier adapted for use inthe transportation ofbottled goods in small quantities such as one-half dozen.

It is customary under present practice to package bottled soft drinks incardboard carriers of the six bottle type so" that they may be easilytransported by the customer. Owing to this nature of the material, suchcarriers do not afford much protection to the bottles and are notserviceable for using more than once.

Furthermore such cardboard carriers as are now in general use cannot beeasily stacked one upon another because of the handles which protr-udeabove the tops of the bottles and interfere with the placing of onecarrier upon the top of another.

with stop means for limiting the upper move- The object of the presentinvention is to provide a bottle carrier which will afford maximumprotection to the bottles contained therein.

Another object is to provide a bottle carrier which may be usedrepeatedly for storing and ,transporting bottled goods.

Still another object is the provision of a bottle carrier of suchconstruction that it may be easily stacked with similar. carriers.

A further object is to provide a bottle carrier formed of two side wallmembers.and a bottom wall member of Masonite board, fiber board or othersuitable sheet material, attached together by means of two binderbrackets of sheet metal or the like.

A still further object is to provide a carrier of the character referredto .in which the sheet metal binder brackets also form guides for avertically slidable partition and handle member which may be collapsedfor stacking the carriers one upon another and extended for carrying acarrier by hand.

Another object is to provide a bottle carrier of this type in which theside wall members are provided with rounded comers having a radius lessthan that of the bottles so as to cushion thebottles located in thecorners of the container.

Still another object is to provide such a bottle carrier in which all ofthe parts of the carrier are assembled by means of the combined binderand guide brackets.

A further object of the invention is to provide a binder and guidebracket formed of a single piece of sheet metal, or the like, having avertical attaching portion for connecting opposed edges of the sidewalls together, a horizontal lower flange for connecting the bottom wallto the side ment of the partition and handle member.

The above objects, together with others which will be apparent from thedrawings and description, or which may be later referred to, may beattained by constructing the improved bottle carrier in the mannerillustrated in the accompanying drawings. in which:

Eigure 1 is an isometric view of a bottle carrier constructed inaccordance with the invention;

Fig. 2 a transverse sectional view through the bottle carrier, showingthe manner in which the slidable partition and handle may be collapsedto permit stacking of the bottle carriers, one upon another.

Fig. 3 an isometric view of the binder and guide bracket;

Fig. 4 a longitudinal, vertical section through the bottle carrier, and

Fig. 5 a top plan view of the carrier.

Referring now to the drawings, in which similar numerals refer tosimilar parts throughout, the improved bottle carrier to which theinvention pertains may be formed generally of two similar wall members10, a bottom member I I. and a partition and handle member l2, which maybe Masonite board, fiber board, ply wood, metal or other suitable sheetmaterial, the bottom member II and partition and handle I? beingpreferably of greater thickness than the wall members II.

All 01' these sheet material members may be assembled together to formthe complete bottle carrier by means of a pair of'binder and guidebrackets indicated generally at 13 which may be formed of sheet metal orthe like.

The bottom member II is of oblong shape and of proper size to supportthe number of bottles which it is desired to carry. Such carriers areusually made to hold six bottles and as shown in the drawings, twoparallel rows of three bottles each, as indicated at M, may be containedin the carrier, the two rows of bottles being spaced by the partitionand handle member as best shown in Fig. 5.

The corners of the bottom member are preferably rounded, as at II, andeach or the wall members l0 forms one complete side wall l6 and twohalves of the end walls II, by bending opposite ends ot the wall membersto fit around the rounded comers I! of the bottom member, as indicatedat I.

walls, and spaced guide flanges for slidably It should be noted that therounded corners ll of the wall members are on a smaller radius than thatof the bottles ll, so that each comer bottle in the container has only atwo point contact with the walls, as indicated at l9, thus cushioningthe comer bottles against shock or impact against the corner portions ofthe carrier.

The binder and guide bracket I3 is preferably formed from a single sheetof metal, the side portions of which are folded back upon itself, as at20, to a point near the vertical, longitudinal center of the bracket andthen bent outward at right angles forming the spaced pair of guideflanges 2| which may be cut out at their lower portions, as at 22, inorder to reduce the weight. A horizontal flange 23 is bent outwardly atright angles to the normal plane of the bracket at the lower endthereof.

In assembling the bottle carrier the guide flanges 2| of the bracketsare inserted between the opposed edges of the end wall portions I1. atopposite ends of the carrier, the folded portion 20 of the bracketsbeing butted against the outer surfaces of the end wall portions l1 andattached thereto as by the wire stitches or staples 24.

The bottom member I I, which has been inserted within the lower end ofthe wall members, rests upon the horizontal bottom flanges 23 of thebrackets and fits beneath the lower ends 26 of the bracket flanges 2|and is connected to the horizontal flanges 23 as by the wire staples orstitches 21. Thus the wall members and bottom be pulled-upward to thefull line position shown in Fig. 2, bringing the hand grip opening 3|above the tops of the bottles so that the user may easily member aresecurely attached together in proper position by means of the bracketsI3.

The partition and handle member comprises the lower or partition portion29, of suitable dimensions to extend longitudinally through the centerof the carrier from one end thereof to the other, and preferably fromthe bottom memberto' the upper edges of the wall members, and thetapered handle portion 30 extending upwardly from the partition portionand provided with the hand grip opening 3|, by means of which thecarrier may be manually transported.

The vertical edge portions of the partition and handle member l2 areslidably received between the guide flanges 2| of the bracket, andrivets, or other suitable stop members 32, are located through apertures33 in the flanges I and through the vertical slots 34 in the edgeortions of the partition and handle member, thus limiting the slidingmovement of the partition and handle member relative to the carrier.

For storage or transportation the partition and handle member l2 may becollapsed or telescoped within the carrier to the lowered position shownin Figs. 1 and 4, and shown in broken lines in Fig. 2 so that the upperend thereof is below the tops of the bottles l4, permitting the filledcarriers to be stacked one upon another.

When it is desired to carry the bottle carrier by hand, the partitionand handle member may insert his hand therethrough to carry the device.

From the above it will be evident that a strong, durable and simplyconstructed bottle carrier is provided in which all of the membersforming the carrier are assembled and attached by means of the twobrackets l3, which provide for rigid attachment of the wall and bottommembers and sliding. attachment of the partition and handle member, sothat the improved bottle carriers are adapted for stacking upon eachother or for manual transportation. i

We claim:

l. A bottle carrier comprising a pair of opposed, similar, sheetmaterial wall members, each forming one complete side wall and halves oftwo end walls of the carrier, a sheet material bottom member located atthe lower edges of the Wall members, a binder and guide bracket locatedat each end of the carrier, each bracket having a vertical portionoverlapping and attached to opposed edge portions of the wall members, ahoria-I similar, sheet material wa-ll members, each forming one completeside wall and halves of two end walls of the carrier, a sheet materialbottom member located at the lowen edges" of the wall members, a binderand guide bracket located at each end of the carrier, each bracketformed of a single sheet of metal'having its opposite side portionsfolded back upon itself to a point near the center of the bracket andthen bent inwardly forming a guide channel disposed between the opposededges of the wall members, means attaching the folded portions of thebracket to the opposed .edge portions of the wall membersQa horizontalflange at the lower end of each bracket attached to the adjacent endportion of the bot-' tom member and' a partition and handle memberJOSEPH RoBINsoN, JR. MARK L. SI/QIBERT.

